How Poetry Can Change Your Heart Quotes

“Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost. Poetry haunts. Poetry permeates the walls we put up. Poetry startles us awake and into our own aliveness. Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms. Though it is difficult to change a stubborn mind, poetry can change our hearts in an instant.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“The poet Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz advises that if you’ve told a story more than three times in your life, it should be a poem.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“To understand the universe, I turn to science but to understand my place in it, I turn to poetry.”
― Andrea Gibson, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Poetry is the pen-and-paper version of paying wondrous attention.”
― Andrea Gibson, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Poetry has played a part in nearly every revolution in history. Political poems have been hollered at rallies, at protests, at pride events, in prisons, in treatment centers, in colleges, in churches, and more. You could even argue that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was itself a poem, as he undoubtedly used poetic device to heighten his message and captivate listeners:”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“There isn’t anyone in the world who doesn’t write things that don’t suck ever. Your favorite poet has awful drafts and bizarre metaphors too. They just don’t publish those, so we don’t see them, and then we put the poet on this writerly pedestal of not-sucking.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“There is poetry in the noticing. In allowing your mouth to hang open in the presence of everyday magic.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Poetry is the pen-and-paper version of paying wondrous attention.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“People’s minds aren’t often changed quickly or easily, but people’s hearts can be changed in an instant, and therein lies the power of poetry to change the world.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Hate thrives in the presence of ignorance, and many poems are an education. Poetry is the anti-bomb, the anti-border. And, in a world where there is so much destruction, creation itself is medicine.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Poems can uncover our own dusty griefs. They can enrage us into action, or encourage us to shout our aching into megaphones at protests and rallies. But that doesn’t mean the same poems can’t also make you happy.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

“Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost.”
― Megan Falley, How Poetry Can Change Your Heart